FIVE YEARS’ GAOL
AN;ARMED BURGLAR-: (Per.Preßs Association.) AUCKLAND; this day.. Edward • Donovan,, 34, an electrician, was--sentenced'by Mr. Justice Herdman to five, years’ hard labor for breaking and; entering;, and , being. armed with a revolver; with intent to enter a-store. He was one of four men concerned in the revolver shots were fired.The prisoner, in a statement from the dock, appealed; for a retrial, which the judge* refused,-- saying that the verdict was,: quite- sound; The accused was a dangerouscriminal. His .most; serious crime’'Waas.an' attempt: to shoot a police- , man in > Wanganui..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17612, 30 October 1931, Page 9
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91FIVE YEARS’ GAOL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17612, 30 October 1931, Page 9
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